Clint Mission 99 #9
3/1/99
Dear Family,
Laundry, washing dishes, ironing, cooking my own food, this no maid thing is joke! ( smile) Yup, looks like I’m going to learn a few homemaking skills after all.
It has been a good week. Especially Sunday. I had the great privilege of putting on the baptismal clothes and baptizing Eng yesterday. The newest member of the Chba Ampov Girls Club and also of the 5th Branch. She is 17 years old. We had a great baptismal service with Cann (look in my earlier pictures) her friend giving a talk and we watched a 5 minute video clip of Christ among the Nephites. It was reverent and just a great meeting for all involved. We should of baptized another young man too, however his parents have not given their permission and want him to hold off. This is Vereya the young man who brought his teacher to Church. He was so excited about being baptized it is going to be hard for him.
Elder Hodson and I are excited about a family we are teaching. Sari, his wife, and 4 children. We taught them the first this past week and look forward to meeting with them in the coming week. The Father, Sari, said that he would not believe unless he felt the Holy Ghost. We are itching to get back and see how his reading and prayer are going. We so want to help this family become members of the Church.
I had a neat experience this past week as Elder Hodson was sick to his stomach one afternoon. He stayed at the office. I went out with Hoa a district missionary. We went to teach a 1st Discussion to a family. They were not home. As we followed up with a guy we had taught the day before, a younger man came up to us, curious about what we were doing…… Soon we’re in his one room house sitting Indian style on the wooden floor teaching Caanthia 25 and his 20 year old wife. The only white guy, pretty much all by myself yet comfortable and good help from Hoa.
Another experience of what missionary work in Cambodia is like. Elder Hodson and I headed out on Sunday with only one scheduled appointment but we had a map to a referral. There is no such thing as a clear map or good directions in the poorer areas where street numbers and house numbers aren’t used. However we used this opportunity. Locked the bikes and went into an area by foot. With our map and a “full clip” of pamphlets to hand out. The map is a good ice breaker. The people open up a little easier.
Example: Hey Uncle how are you today? Do you know Niat?
(give him the map) (Let him give us his interpretation)
Uncle asks why are you trying to find him?
Well, he wants to study about Jesus Christ, and we teach about Jesus Christ. . . . . .
We finally did find Niats house. He wasn’t home. We talked to lots of people in the process and one man showed up to church for our efforts. We had about 10-15 kids following us around the whole time as we walked the narrow streets. They helped us know which roads were dead ends and also great for going in to the house and calling people out to meet us. Two or three times Elder Hodson and I would just kind of laugh at our followers, the group of kids. They were awesome!
Well that is about it from me this week.
Love ya,
Your son, Brother, and Missionary,
Elder Rogers